The concept of megaregions is increasingly put forward among academics and policy makers as a new scale of economic co-ordination and social organisation. A megaregion is most commonly understood as an economic unit that comprises an agglomeration of cities and its less dense hinterlands, which...

This report aims to highlight diverse sources of urban fragility and approaches to urban transformation, renewal, and resilience. Five city case studies explore the drivers of fragility related to security, development, and governance, before offering examples of policies and programs that can...

Cities and Economic change is a much-needed textbook, combining a sound theoretical grounding with an empirical overview of the urban economy. Specific references are made to key emergent processes and debates including splintered labour markets, informal economies, consumption, a comparative...